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Statemaking and Social Movements

Essays in History and Theory

An interdisciplinary dialogue about politics, social movements, and the transformative relationship between states and societies.

An interdisciplinary dialogue about politics, social movements, and the transformative relationship between states and societies.

The Diffusion of Social Movements

Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects

It is widely recognized that social movements may spread - or 'diffuse' - from one site to another. Such diffusion, however, is a complex and multidimensional process that involves different actors, networks, and mechanisms. This complexity has spawned a large body of literature on different aspects of the diffusion process, yet a comprehensive framework remains an elusive target. This book is a response to that need, and its framework focuses on three basic analytical questions. First, what is being diffused? Second, how does diffusion occur? Finally, what is the impact of diffusion on organizational development and shifts in the scale of contentious politics? This volume suggests that diffusion is not a simple matter of political contagion or imitation; rather, it is a creative and strategic process marked by political learning, adaptation, and innovation.

This book is a response to that need, and its framework focuses on three basic analytical questions. First, what is being diffused? Second, how does diffusion occur?

East Asian Social Movements

Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region

In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, and society is needed. The region’s long traditions of centralized, authoritarian states buttressed by Confucian and in some cases Communist ideologies may render this concept irrelevant. The chapters in this international volume cover most of the areas and countries traditionally defined as belonging to East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. The case studies included in this volume confront the utility of using the Western concept of civil society, represented in its most active form – social movements – to think about East Asia popular politics. Along with providing an array of important case studies of social movements in East Asia, the introduction, chapters and conclusion in the book take up three major theoretical questions: the effect of the East Asian cultural, social and institutional context upon the mobilization, activities and outcomes of social movements in that region, the role of social movements in larger transformative processes, utility of Western social movement concepts in explaining social movements in East Asia. This book will be of interest to two major groups of readers, those who study East Asia and those who pursue social movements and civil society, as well as politics more generally.

Social Movement as Cognitive Praxis: The Case of the Student Movement and
the Labor Movement in Hong Kong Benjamin K.P. Leung Introduction:
Theoretical Perspectives The study of social movements has until recently been
concerned ...

Social Movements in Politics

A Comparative Study

In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru. The book concludes with a juxtaposition of the three major theoretical approaches and historical findings and proposes a fourth theoretical approach emphasizing factional conflict and reconciliation.

Other scholars who define social movements in terms of a group's deliberate
attempt to remake society include Goldberg (1991), Killian (1964), and Morris (
1984). Piven (1976: 300–1), however, contends that the concept of social
movement ...

Latin American Social Movements

Globalization, Democratization, and Transnational Networks

The two current trends of democratization and deepening economic liberalization have made Latin American countries a ground for massive defensive mobilization campaigns and have created new sites of popular struggle. In this edited volume on Latin American social movements, original chapters are combined with peer-reviewed articles from the well-regarded journal Mobilization. Each section represents a major theme in Latin American social movement research. Original chapters discuss the Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement in Argentina and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. Also included in the book's coverage of the region's major movements are los piqueteros and antisweatshop labor organizing. This is the first study to focus closely on the related issues of neoliberal globalization, democratization, and the workings of transnational advocacy networks in Latin America.

This is the first study to focus closely on the related issues of neoliberal globalization, democratization, and the workings of transnational advocacy networks in Latin America.

Social Movements and Cultural Change

The First Abolition Campaign Revisited

As a result of the efforts of the Abolition Committee in Great Britain in the half-decade between 1787 and 1792, slavery and the slave trade-previously accepted as necessary evils-were perceived as gross injustices and evils to be eradicated. This volume examines that first abolition movement in order to show how social movements produce and alter meanings, thus bringing about cultural change.

This volume examines that first abolition movement in order to show how social movements produce and alter meanings, thus bringing about cultural change.

Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy

Using case studies from around the world, this book analyzes the recent wave of social movement and protests.

Why Did the Anti-Austerity Movements Fail? Beyza Çağatay Tekin and Rıfat Barış
Tekin The world has witnessed a new wave of mass protests starting first in
crisishit Greece in spring 2010 against austerity measures, and then in the
Middle ...

Protest, Social Movements, and Global Democracy since 2011

New Perspectives

This volume engages with new theoretical and methodological perspectives and illuminates novel aspects of transnational social movement dynamics, such as the evolving role of information technology, deterritorialisation and government counter-responses.

This volume engages with new theoretical and methodological perspectives and illuminates novel aspects of transnational social movement dynamics, such as the evolving role of information technology, deterritorialisation and government ...

Rethinking Social Movements

Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition.. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the social sciences at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for social science as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency. Visit our website for sample chapters!

They provide a convenient opportunity for me to critically reflect on the current
status of social movement theory. Because of space limitations, it is impossible to
provide a comprehensive review and critique of this burgeoning field. In this
essay ...

Social Movements in Britain

Social Movements have become a central focus of political study in recent years. Paul Byrne's accessible account of British Social movements introduces students to the relevant theories, and puts them into practice by examining groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Women's Movement and the Green Party. Byrne goes on to look at how the British scene compares with what is happening in the rest of Europe and in America.

6 CND and the peace movement We turn now to a consideration of particular
movements in recent British politics. We have seen from our discussion of
theoretical viewpoints that public protest is arguably not the only significant
aspect of ...